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2010 Census More Likely to Undercount Rural America
February 24, 2010
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As the United States prepares for the 2010 census, rural areas are at risk of being undercounted, says demographer William O'Hare, senior policy fellow at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
"In certain cases, the census misses large segments of the rural population," says O'Hare, author of a brief on this subject published today by the Carsey Institute. "Notably, blacks in the rural South, Hispanics in the Southwest border region, and American Indians on reservations in the Southwest and Northern Plains are among the hardest-to-count populations." Undercounted communities do not receive a fair share of public funds for schools, hospitals, day care centers, roads, and other programs that receive federal funding.
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